Kevin Costner Quotes

American history is seen to be the development of the first mass democracy on earth.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

American history is … best understood as a millenarian movement.

Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.

In the two centuries that have passed since 1776, millions upon millions of Americans have worked and taken up arms when necessary to make that dream a reality. We can be extremely proud of what they have accomplished. Today, we are the world's oldest republic. We are at peace. Our Nation and our way of life endure. We are free.

Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it was a town that was founded by Quakers in 1733.

My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.

Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

America started out as an invention society.

Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes.

New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.

Patrick Henry aligned himself against ratification. So did Richard Henry Lee.

I'm so proud of myself. I thought, 'I've got to learn about American history.' I literally took two months off and watched every documentary known to man. I really didn't know Benjamin Franklin was so cool.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.

I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes.

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

… in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress

The Declaration of Independence is no part of the Constitution or of any other book.

Within four months, from the very day on which the Boston Port Bill reached America, the deputies of eleven provinces had convened in Philadelphia, and in four days more there was a complete representation of twelve colonies, containing three millions of people.

Not enough people really think about the founding of our country, how it all began and what its really about. They don't even teach it in schools any more.

I'm often asked, 'Why didn't Benjamin Franklin ever become president?' My short, easy answer is: He died.

American history is the story of Democratic malefactors and Republican heroes.